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updatedAt: 2025-10-01T20:29:09.000Z
agentTools:
  projectIndex: https://developer.themoviedb.org/llms.txt
---

# Getting Started

Welcome to version 3 of The Movie Database (TMDB) API. This is where you will find the definitive list of currently available methods for our movie, tv, actor and image API.

# OpenAPI definition

This is the part of the API’s OpenAPI definition that covers servers and authentication. Each endpoint page has its own operation.

```json
{
  "openapi": "3.1.0",
  "info": {
    "title": "tmdb-api",
    "version": "3"
  },
  "servers": [
    {
      "url": "https://api.themoviedb.org"
    }
  ],
  "security": [
    {
      "sec0": []
    }
  ],
  "components": {
    "securitySchemes": {
      "sec0": {
        "type": "apiKey",
        "in": "header",
        "name": "Authorization",
        "x-bearer-format": "bearer"
      }
    }
  }
}
```